Other engine problem on the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
2 fires 2 of the 12 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 report other engine problem at a median of 105,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 180,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 185,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 154,679 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
22% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28,321 miles | 53,000 miles | 107,000 miles | 178,000 miles | 183,000 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 2 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 22 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 135,000 miles.
By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 40; the 2003 has 12. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Dt*: the contact stated the vehicle was started, ran for 10 seconds and stalled completely. The vehicle was not able to be restarted. The vehicle was towed to a service dealer who was unable to duplicate or determine the problem.
Vehicle remains running but shows power reduction. Check engine light comes on and stays on. You have to pull over, shut it off, press the arrow button on the steering wheel for a few second and restart. This happened on i35 at 70mph 4 times in 40 miles yesterday. *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2003 chevrolet silverado 2500 hd. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled without warning while driving at any speed intermittently, but the failure became frequent, when the vehicle was turned off and within a few minutes it began to function normally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who performed a diagnostic test and confirmed that the crank position sensor had failed. The manufacturer was notified and stated that the vehicle was not included in recall 07v521000 engine and engine cooling; they agreed to call him at a later date to inform him if they were going to assist with the repair. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 2,000 and the current mileage was 105,000.
Also reported on the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
Loss of braking
Other brake problem
Brake line, hose or caliper failure
Instrument cluster or gauge failure
Other electrical problem
Differential or transfer case failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 12 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other engine problem happen on the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 105,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 55,000 miles and a quarter after 180,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 41 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed